[On-Site Video+] NIS "3,000 North Korean troops moved to Russia...1,500 more people"

[Anchor]
The National Intelligence Service says North Korea has already dispatched more than 3,000 troops to help Russia.

It's an increase of 1,500 people from what was previously known.

The NIS predicted that North Korea will send a total of 10,000 people by December.

Let's hear the NIS's report to the National Assembly Intelligence Committee a little while ago as an executive briefing between the ruling and opposition parties.

[Park Sun-won / Opposition secretary of the National Assembly Intelligence Committee]
Today, there was a closed-door meeting with the head of the National Intelligence Service on the trend of sending North Korean troops to Russia. It was originally a private meeting, so we planned to have no press briefing.Since all the Intelligence Committee members attended and the public is interested in it, the chairman, the NIS, and the secretaries of both parties will agree to hold a background briefing and briefly hold a background briefing. First of all, it's how we got the intelligence. North Korea and Russia recently began discussing sending troops after signing Article 4 of the New Treaty between North Korea and Russia and Article 4 of the New Treaty, which calls for providing military aid without delay in case one side is invaded. Shoigu, the current secretary of the National Security Council, who was Russia's defense minister, visited North Korea and said he believes the process of sending troops has begun. It is judged that combat troops are not currently dispatched to the site, but as already announced last week in early August, North Korea's missile development chief, Jungsik Kim, the first deputy head of the munitions industry department, was seen guiding the field on the Russia-Ukraine front. In the meantime, there has been a question of what the overall size will be in the media. Regarding that, the National Intelligence Service presented fairly reasonable intelligence that about 10,000 people would be deployed. Now North Korean troops have been seen training in North Korea twice, in September and October. The so-called Best 11th Army and Storm Corps are mainly dispatched. And I understand that it is distributed in a number of training facilities in Russia and is being adapted to the local area. One of the biggest differences from last Friday's press release from the National Intelligence Service appears to have sent an additional 1,500 people. So, the total number of North Korean troops moved to Russia so far is judged by about 3,000 people. Of course, there may have been more troops sent, and there may be differences in some numbers, but it is said that they understand it roughly that much. There were reports that the planned dispatch of about 10,000 troops between Russia and North Korea is expected around December.

[Lee Sung-kwon / ruling party secretary of the National Assembly Intelligence Committee]
Next, Park Sun-won, secretary of the opposition party, explained what he had just received from the National Intelligence Service on how to obtain intelligence and the status of the dispatch of troops. Now, I will explain what has happened inside North Korea and what has happened inside Russia as soon as I received the report. This point is not well known in our Korean society, so I will tell you one by one. According to trends within North Korea, there is a trend that proves the dispatch of North Korean troops within North Korea. The North Korean authorities have not informed the outside world about the situation, but since the start of the dispatch, news has been circulating among residents that a storm troop has been sent to Russia. Furthermore, it is said that the families of the starting soldiers sobbed greatly and their faces were damaged. As a result, the North Korean authorities are reportedly moving and quarantining families of dispatched soldiers somewhere in order to control and manage them more effectively, along with a thorough crackdown on their mouths. I'll tell you about the internal trends in Russia. It has also been confirmed that the Russian military is selecting Korean language interpretation resources on a large scale, and that the North Korean military is conducting special education such as how to use military equipment and flying drones. In addition, Russian instructors who participated in the military training evaluated that the North Korean military had excellent physical strength and morale, but lacked understanding of modern warfare, such as drone attacks, and expected many deaths when deployed to the front line.